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Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
December 2024
Background: The cardiac operating room is a complex, high-risk, sociotechnical system. Risks in cardiac surgery and anesthesiology have been extensively categorized, but less is known about effective risk reduction strategies. A comprehensive understanding of effective, evidence-based risk reduction strategies is necessary to improve patient safety in cardiac anesthesia.
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January 2025
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 455 - Sala 4107, São Paulo, São Paulo 01246-903, Brazil.
Patients continue to suffer from preventable harm and uneven quality outcomes. Reliable clinical outcomes depend on the quality of robust administrative systems and reliable support processes. Critically ill patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the intensive care unit (ICU) are known to be high-risk events.
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January 2025
Department of Nursing, Affiliated Hospital 2 of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, People's Republic of China.
Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the characteristics of intraoperative nursing near-miss events in interventional operating rooms, systematically identify and analyze associated risks, and propose effective mitigation strategies.
Patients And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted using a specially designed survey focused on nursing near-miss events in Interventional operating rooms. Records of intraoperative near-miss events voluntarily reported by medical and nursing staff between January 2023 and March 2024 were analyzed.
Risk Manag Healthc Policy
January 2025
Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Center (CIDNUR) of Lisbon, Nursing School of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal.
Purpose: The Bedside Handover Attitudes and Behaviors questionnaire is a 32-item instrument originally developed in English that enables nurse managers to monitor the consistency of nurses' practice during the implementation of the Nursing Bedside Handover. We aimed to cross-culturally validate this questionnaire for the Portuguese population and to examine its psychometric properties.
Methods: An exploratory-descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional, and validation study was conducted.
Am J Med
January 2025
Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
We examined data from 17,498 physicians-in-training who reported on 92,662 months of work over a 20 year study interval that included three major revisions to work hour limits. Extended duration shifts (≥24 hours; EDS) are much less common than they used to be. On average, first-year resident physicians (PGY1s) currently work a total of 4 EDS per year and 3 EDS per month during months in which any EDS are worked.
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